I rolled my car off a cliff in 1980 and the name
just stuck. My friend and I were able to walk away with
minor injuries. I had a concussion and some cuts on my
hand where it hit the windshield. My friend had a sprained
wrist. I don't remember the previous hour before we were
getting out of the car though. The car was not totaled!
Should have been, it had a layer of bondo on the roof that
was two inches thick. That shattered five years later when
a branch fell on top of the car.
People started using lemming as my last name, I used it as my login at UCSC for the first time in 1982. Online, I'm either lemming, lemming552, or icepirate it seems. The 552 was just a random number, icepirate from the movie and a character I play in a RPG, Champions.